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Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby yeshuas » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:21 pm

I have had really good luck with Q6600, has anyone else used another quad. I am not ready to switch to the I7 yet as that means different memory etc.

Anyone used the Q9550?
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby Grav!ty » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:22 pm

Why are you wanting to upgrade Daniel?
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby NT50 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:21 pm

I have not upgrade from my Q6600 due to face I have a led display on my keyboard and it says that I have never used all my processor. Now I have used the majority of my memory which is only 2 gig. But now since I hae Win 7 32 bit and XP64 bit I ahe considered upgrade my RAM.

I think the most processor I ahve used is around 57% when loading a couple programs at one time.

EDIT: those programs ae memory hogs btw
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby augie » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:24 pm

I'll ditto Graham, yes it's 400MHz faster and has a 12MB L2 cache instead of 8MB. No, I have no experience with the 9550 but it's just an incremental increase and to spend some $240 for that is just not worth it IMHO.

I only upgrade when the tech jumps a significant amount, like getting an X2 to replace my single core(same mobo) or up to a quad this time, significant gains in speed each time. I'll be getting an i7 next year when the prices hopefully come down a bit. I'll happily stick to my now lowly Q6600 until then. (You know I'm a power hungry user and severely itch for more power!.;)) Here's a screen just to let you see how choked my quad is ATM.:D It is still very responsive at this load for regular things. :yesnod: ^*^

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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby mnemonicj » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:26 pm

The Q6600 is supposed to be one of the base Quad Core processors with limited speed and the slowest FSB for a Quad Core. I think the reason that you are not using all of the processing power of a Quad Core processor is because you are not running applications that are optimized for 4 cores and only use 1 core at a time. If you purchase a faster Quad Core processor you will notice a difference in speed because each process will be performed faster.

One thing that makes the Q9550 much faster is the FSB. At 1333MHz, it has a good advantage over the 1066MHz of the Q6600.
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby augie » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:22 pm

mnemonicj wrote:The Q6600 is supposed to be one of the base Quad Core processors with limited speed and the slowest FSB for a Quad Core. I think the reason that you are not using all of the processing power of a Quad Core processor is because you are not running applications that are optimized for 4 cores and only use 1 core at a time. If you purchase a faster Quad Core processor you will notice a difference in speed because each process will be performed faster.

One thing that makes the Q9550 much faster is the FSB. At 1333MHz, it has a good advantage over the 1066MHz of the Q6600.


Ya, but his PC6400 RAM would hold that back, no? To match a 1333 FSB, one would need PC10500. It's your money Dan.:)
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby NT50 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:27 pm

Augie

What are you doing to choke down your processor.
As far as I can see from the below images, I need a little more RAM and my low end Q6600 is doing a great job. And I do have MS Outlook 2k7, blackberry software running in background.
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby augie » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:41 pm

Hehehe Jeff, you should poke your head into the Distributed Computing forums once in a while.;) I'm running VirtualBox with an Ubuntu client running a folding@home SMP(Simultaneous Multi Processing), basically means using all four cores. It sure stresses one's machine eh? :)
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby NT50 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:55 pm

ahhhhhh

I see now

You need another computer for that then :)
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Re: Q6600 or what Quad is better or comparable

Postby yeshuas » Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:28 pm

You all make valid points but I am not going to upgrade my Q6600 I am putting it in another computer and my choices were the Q6600 or the Q9550 since they are about the same price or close when you can find the Q6600 that is.
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